From Glenn Reynolds:
GREENHOUSE UPDATE: “More than 10,000 jet into Bali for global warming conference. “ You just can’t make this stuff up. Sadly, you don’t have to.
From the article:
“Nobody denies this is an important event, but huge numbers of people are going, and their emissions are probably going to be greater than a small African country,” said Chris Goodall, author of the book “How to Live a Low-Carbon Life.”
[snip]
Two big climate conferences have been held in less than a month, both in idyllic, far-flung holiday destinations — first Valencia, Spain, and now Bali. They were preceded by dozens of smaller gatherings. In Bangkok, Paris, Vienna, Washington, New York and Sydney, in Rio de Janeiro, Anchorage, Helsinki and the Indian Ocean island of Kurumba.
From the Conference Agenda, from 10:00-11:00 a.m. on Day 2, the topic is “How to rationalize your own selfish and gi-normous carbon footprint so you don’t feel like such a jet-fuel sucking hypocrite”.
Two big climate conferences have been held in less than a month, both in idyllic, far-flung holiday destinations
Uh, far-flung from whom? A global conference is by necessity going to be across the world from somebody.
Should they have walked instead?
Left by Preston on December 5th, 2007 at 10:34 am